執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月18日 | TOEIC
Please rewrite this paragraph. Some of the sentences are not incomplete. Where is the mistake? A. Please rewrite B. this paragraph C. Some of the sentences D. are not incomplete 「この段落を書き直してください。いくつかの文章が不完全です。」 間違いはどこでしょうか？...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月17日 | Trivia
On Halloween, we say “trick or treat”. This means that if we don’t get a treat, we will play a trick! One traditional trick is to TP someone’s house or car. “TP” stands for “toilet paper”! Mischievous children throw rolls of toilet paper over the house so that the...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月16日 | Idioms
“Did your mother say you could go out today? I thought you had a lot of homework.” “Well, not in so many words, but she implied it!” When we talk about what someone said, we often rephrase it using different words. We especially like to shorten things so we don’t have...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月15日 | Words
“Please rake all the leaves in the yard into a pile.” In autumn, leaves fall off the trees and pile up all over the ground. If someone talks about raking up leaves, you know they mean the fallen leaves. If they say the leaves are pretty, they probably mean the leaves...
執筆者 Modern English | 2013年10月12日 | Phrases
Mom: “That haunted house sure was scary! Are you okay? Not too scared?” Daughter: “It wasn’t that scary! They weren’t real ghosts!” If something was less scary than we expected, or not as scary as someone said it would be, we say it wasn’t “that scary”. You can use...
